Jinyi Town Mountains and Rivers

Chapter 288 The Coffin
Hai Rui smiled at He Liu: "Forget it, I won't play charades with you anymore. That's right, I want to join the current emperor!"

He Liu sighed: "From ancient times to the present, I have only heard of those who persuaded the emperor, but never heard of anyone participating in the impeachment of the emperor."

Hai Rui sat back on the chair and smiled: "These days when I came back from Wanping. I have been thinking that my Ming Dynasty has a vast territory and abundant products. Why is it now that I have become a thousand-mile hungry? Yang Lian impeached Yan Song at the beginning because He thinks that the culprit of all this is Yan Song. But now that Yan Song has already fallen, is the life of ordinary people easier? Probably not."

He Liudao: "Actually, everyone is like a bright mirror in their hearts as to why state affairs are so depraved. Xu Jie, Gao Gong, and Zhang Juzheng chose to wait. Why can't you, Hai Gangfeng, learn from Xu, Gao, Zhang, and learn to wait? "

Hai Rui shook his head: "There are some things that can't be waited for! Just like those disaster victims in Wanping County. A stick of incense and a bowl of hot porridge in the evening may cost a person's life!"

Hai Rui turned around and went to the main room to take out a memorial.Then he put the memorial on the table: "Let's have a look."

He Liu glanced at it, only to see the big book with folded heads: "Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, Yunnan Qingli Department, and my minister Hai Rui would like to play it, to speak out the most important thing in the world!"
He Liu shook his head: "I don't read it. Tell me, what's written in the notebook?"

Hai Rui talked eloquently: "How wise was the emperor at the beginning of Yuji? Open up his voice, recruit talented people, and reuse virtuous ministers. This is how the Jiajing Dynasty was peaceful and prosperous for more than ten years. I don't know why, gradually, The emperor used his wisdom and wisdom in other places. He thought that people could live forever, believed in Taoist priests, and was obsessed with Xuanxiu. He spent state funds, built large-scale construction projects, and overhauled palaces.

If you are obsessed with cultivating Taoism, you will neglect political affairs.The emperor did not go to court for 20 years, which led to lax discipline and corruption.Yan Song's disciples took the opportunity to control the government, sold officials and nobles, and exploited the people.The upper beam is not right and the lower beam is crooked, and officials all over the world are corrupt. Can the people have a good life?
The emperor is greedy for money and good goods.Wantonly searched for money for his own private treasury, the inner carrier warehouse.But I have never seen him use a tael of private treasury money on the people.And the extravagance led to the emptiness of the treasury and the weakness of the guards.Floods and droughts are like fire, but the cabinet can't provide money for relief.The cabinet has no money, so it is natural to have to live without money. In some places, taxes have been received 70 years after Jiajing!Whether the emperor can live another 25 years is unknown!
The emperor worshiped Taoism.During the time of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, he governed the world with the learning of Huang Lao.So the emperor often compares himself to the Emperor Wen of Han!joke!Emperor Wenwen of the Han Dynasty had the virtue of loving the people, and he was kind and simple.He also trusted Jia Yi and ruled the world with his virtuous ministers.Look at the current emperor, who regards the people as fish and meat that can be taken at any time!Kind and simple?I can't see the simplicity, the extravagance is the real thing!kindly?Widely used factory guard slaves, for those virtuous ministers of Qingliu who dare to speak up, they will be beaten if they want to hit the court rod, and they will be killed if they want to kill the steel knife!Compared with Emperor Wen of Han, the emperor is not as good as one in a hundred!
In the past two years, Yan Song was dismissed and Yan Shifan was sentenced to death.But Yan Song's political affairs after he was dismissed as prime minister have not changed at all!Officials should be greedy or greedy, ordinary people should be unable to live or not!

The world is the home of the emperor!How can the head of the house ignore his own family?

The emperor also used some imperial techniques to play tricks on the officials.Does he think that as long as he seizes the power of punishment and reward, the world can be governed?

The monarch is the master of all things in the world, but treats the people of Li as nothing.Is this the attitude a monarch should have towards the people? "

Hai Rui said all the conscientious officials wanted to say in one breath.

He Liu sighed: "Brother Gangfeng, I think of a story Yang Lian told me. The story of the monarch of Ju State wearing new clothes."

Hai Rui nodded: "I also know that story. Just let me be that naive child who tells the truth about the monarch."

He Liu walked to the black lacquered coffin and groped for the coffin board.He knew that Hai Rui and Yang Lian were actually the same person at heart.When a blind man falls off a cliff, that is called a slip.To step into the abyss of death with your head held high for the sake of the common people is called bravery!

And this big black lacquered coffin is the proof of Hai Rui's bravery!
To die without knowing death is for ignorance, and to die knowing death is for fearlessness.

He Liu knew that he couldn't stop the fearless man in front of him from going to this memorial!

He Liu turned to Hai Rui and said, "You must remember one thing. In this scripture, don't involve King Yu! And don't involve Xu, Gao, and Zhang!"

Hai Rui smiled and said, "Don't worry! I'm straight, but I'm not stupid!"

He Liu said again: "What about your family members? Well, before you submit this memorial, I will send people to escort them back to your hometown in Hainan, and make them anonymous. The only thing I can do for you now is This matter!"

Hai Rui cupped his hands: "Then thank Mr. He."

He Liu asked again: "When do you plan to present this memorial?"

Hai Rui said: "On the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, the emperor will move to the newly built Longevity Palace. The courtiers will all present congratulatory forms, and I will do so on that day."

He Liu shook his head: "On the emperor's excitement of moving to a new residence, why would you put such a cold 'congratulatory form'? In a fit of rage, the emperor might tear you apart."

Hai Rui laughed and said, "If the emperor really uses the chariot-cracking torture in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, then he will really become a monarch like King Zhou of Shang and King You of Zhou!"

He Liudao: "You want to be Bigan, but I don't know if the emperor will be King Zhou."

Hai Rui said to He Liu: "I claim to be a scholar with a noble character, and I have never called anyone 'Ye'. I used to call you 'Master He'. Today, I call you Liu Ye. Liu Ye, Do me a favor and lift the lid of this coffin with me. I'll lie in and see if the coffin fits!"

He Liu nodded, and joined forces with Hai Rui to lift the lid of the coffin.

Hai Rui lay down in the coffin, closed his eyes, and said with satisfaction, "It fits well, it's a good coffin!"

He Liu mocked: "Brother Gangfeng, don't worry, I don't think the emperor will leave you a whole body! Anyway, it's just a pile of rotten meat stuffed into this coffin. What fits or doesn't fit?"

The next day, He Liu ordered Li Bofeng to take Hai Rui's family out of the capital and send them back to Hainan.

The sixteenth day of the first lunar month in the 45th year of Jiajing finally arrived.

In Yongshou Palace, there are red Changhong hanging everywhere.Emperor Jiajing glanced at the main hall of Yongshou Palace, and said to Huang Jin: "Clothes are not as good as new ones, people are not as good as old ones. I am really reluctant to leave the main hall of Yongshou Palace."

Chen Hong entered the hall with a bunch of congratulatory forms in his arms: "Report to the emperor, all the congratulatory forms from the ministers have come in! Would you like to have a look?"

Emperor Jiajing said: "It's the same, don't read it. By the way, you just said that they are all in place? What do you mean by this?"

Chen Hongdao: "It refers to officials above the seventh rank in Beijing. The minister deserves death, but he is actually short of one."

Emperor Jiajing became interested: "Oh? Who's the difference?"

Chen Hong replied: "Hai Rui is the head of the Department of Cleaning Officials in Yunnan, Ministry of Household Affairs."

(End of this chapter)